Anup Patel 13acfec2db RISC-V: KVM: Add remote HFENCE functions based on VCPU requests ...

The generic KVM has support for VCPU requests which can be used
to do arch-specific work in the run-loop. We introduce remote
HFENCE functions which will internally use VCPU requests instead
of host SBI calls.

Advantages of doing remote HFENCEs as VCPU requests are:
1) Multiple VCPUs of a Guest may be running on different Host CPUs
   so it is not always possible to determine the Host CPU mask for
   doing Host SBI call. For example, when VCPU X wants to do HFENCE
   on VCPU Y, it is possible that VCPU Y is blocked or in user-space
   (i.e. vcpu->cpu < 0).
2) To support nested virtualization, we will be having a separate
   shadow G-stage for each VCPU and a common host G-stage for the
   entire Guest/VM. The VCPU requests based remote HFENCEs helps
   us easily synchronize the common host G-stage and shadow G-stage
   of each VCPU without any additional IPI calls.

This is also a preparatory patch for upcoming nested virtualization
support where we will be having a shadow G-stage page table for
each Guest VCPU.

Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <apatel@ventanamicro.com>
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>

2022-05-20 09:09:15 +05:30

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